22 THE POULTRY DOCTOR. 



During " fly-time " a flock of turkeys will easily live 

 on insects, such as grasshoppers, etc., and are, therefore, 

 valuable in two senses, but it is not well to raise them 

 unless they can have a wide range. When confined 

 they easily " eat their heads off." 



Ducks do not eat more, if fed regularly, than other 

 fowls of their size, and will be marketable at four 

 months age, and the large breeds may be made to attain 

 five pounds when ten or twelve weeks old ; neither do 

 they require a pond or stream, but may be raised where 

 chickens can be raised ; they require plenty of good 

 drinking water and some pasturage. A stream or pond 

 of water, of course, is an advantage. 



Poultry does well under woman's care, and is very 

 profitable. A lady writes that in one year, after having 

 furnished her own table with nearly a hundred fowls, 

 and with all the eggs needed, she was enabled to sell 

 considerably over one hundred dollars worth of eggs 

 and fowls. The cash outlay bringing in this return 

 was about twenty-five dollars. 



Chickens ought to have a house for winter, even if 

 it consists merely of a few boards nailed together, a 

 mere shanty, lined with paper. The cost of such a shed 

 will be slight, but it will pay. 



Barren, sandy patches about the farm can be profit- 



